Huberta von Bronsart

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Harriet Helene Veronika Xenia Huberta Bronsart von Schellendorff (short: Huberta von Bronsart ; born October 9, 1892 in Marienhof ; † July 18, 1978 in Rottweil ) was a German biologist . She was the first woman in Germany to study astronomy .

Life

Huberta was the daughter of the later lieutenant general and chief of staff of the Turkish army, Friedrich Bronsart von Schellendorf , an officer from the old Prussian family ( Bronsart von Schellendorf ), and his cousin and wife Veronika. Born on the Mecklenburg Gut Marienhof of grandfather and general Walther Bronsart von Schellendorf , she studied natural sciences at the University of Heidelberg from 1915-18 (first astronomy, then mainly biology). She received her doctorate in Heidelberg in 1919 with the dissertation Comparative Investigation of three Xylaria species over a genus of sac fungi . She then worked as a biologist, in horticulture as an assistant at the Hohenheim University of Applied Sciences (1923) and as a bookseller. As early as 1922/23 she was one of the founders of the Stuttgart public observatory , where she worked again in the 1950s. She took photos of sunspots . She worked with the first female professor in Hohenheim, Margarete von Wrangell , who developed special fertilization methods for plant nutrition .

During the time of National Socialism , she was banned from working at Hohenheim University in 1933. When she then worked as a freelancer for Franckh Kosmos Verlag , she was taken into “ protective custody ” in 1934 and 1940 for political reasons . For a long time she worked in a factory, from 1943–45 in research, in order to ensure food with horticultural products. She was a frequent guest in the family and in the business of Gertrud Franck , who inspired her in the mixed culture of gardening (" healthy garden through mixed culture" ).

After 1945 she was mainly active as a journalist and journalist and published numerous articles and popular science books in the fields of botany and horticulture, but also astronomy. Her book Little Description of the Life of the Constellations , which also dealt with astronomy-historical topics, became famous. From 1956 to 1970 she was a member of the Astronomical Society .

Fonts

  • The bacteria , Hohenheim 1923
  • The doctrine of the present. Introduction to objective philosophy , Stuttgart 1924
  • Procreation miracle. The love life of plants , 1925, ND 2012 ISBN 978-3846003633
  • Plant growth and migration: A plant physiology , Ullstein, Berlin 1927
  • with M. v. Wrangell: flower color and nitrogen fertilization. In: Naturwissenschaften , 16, pp. 169-172 (1928). Link: https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01513203
  • The student of today , 1929
  • The girl and the youth movement , Deutsches Adelsblatt , 1929
  • Modern fertilization b. Organic fertilization , 1941
  • My own vegetable garden , 1946
  • Modern fertilization , Stuttgart 1949
  • Astronomy for lovers, 1956
  • Youth at the telescope , 1958
  • Almanac of Plants , Stuttgart 1957
  • Space, 1960
  • HERDERS garden book, It grows and blooms for you , Basel-Freiburg / Br.-Vienna 1960 a. ö.
  • Brief biography of the constellations , Stuttgart 1963

literature

  • Margarete von Wrangell and other pioneers. The first women at universities in Baden and Württemberg. Book accompanying the exhibition. Exhibition of the state conference of women's representatives at scientific universities in Baden-Württemberg and the University of Hohenheim. Edited by Ulrich Fellmeth , Scripta-Mercaturae, St. Katharinen 1998.
  • Wolfgang R. Dick: Huberta von Bronsart (1892–1978). A biologist as a popularizer of astronomy. In: Gudrun Wolfschmidt : popularization of astronomy. Proceedings of the conference of the working group on the history of astronomy in the Astronomical Society in Bochum 2016. Tredition, Hamburg 2016, ISBN 978-3-7439-1810-8 , p. 48f.

supporting documents

  1. ^ Anja Walter: The Nazi Period and its Consequences at the University of Hohenheim. 2018, p. 13 , accessed on May 18, 2020 (English).
  2. ^ Eva Zimmer: Wall pictures for school practice: A historical-critical analysis of the wall picture production of the Schulmann publishing house 1925–1987 . Julius Klinkhardt, 2017, ISBN 978-3-7815-2197-1 ( google.de [accessed on May 17, 2020]).
  3. ↑ Frankfurter Hefte . Neue Verlagsgesellschaft der Frankfurter Hefte., 1947 ( google.de [accessed on May 17, 2020]).
  4. ↑ H. Bronsart: Book reviews about: Small biography of the constellations. (Ref. A. UNSÖLD) . In: ZA . tape 57 , 1963, ISSN  0372-8331 , pp. 298 ( harvard.edu [accessed May 18, 2020]).
  5. ^ H. von Bronsart: The bacteria . BoD - Books on Demand, 2013, ISBN 978-3-8460-1352-6 ( google.de [accessed May 17, 2020]).
  6. ^ Philipp Sarasin, Marianne Sommer: Evolution: An interdisciplinary manual . Springer-Verlag, 2015, ISBN 978-3-476-05462-3 ( google.de [accessed on May 17, 2020]).
personal data
SURNAME Bronsart, Huberta von
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Bronsart von Schellendorff, Harriet Helene Veronika Xenia Huberta (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German botanist and astronomer
DATE OF BIRTH October 9, 1892
PLACE OF BIRTH Marienhof
DATE OF DEATH July 18, 1978
Place of death Rottweil